A rare sight in the Southern Pacific, a sub tropical system has formed. Check out the satellite image over South America, there's a little swirl just west of Chile on the Pacific Coast. That is the new sub tropical storm. Also of interest, is the fact the storms in the southern hemisphere flow in the opposite direction vs their northern hemisphere counterparts. While a sub tropical storm near us will have counterclockwise winds, in the southern hemisphere they blow clockwise.
I have been searching weather archives from South America most of the evening and have yet to find a previous mention of a sub tropical storm developing in that basin.
Far removed from the Pacific spin, moisture is being pushed inland and is causing heavy rainfall over parts of Uruguay and Argentina.
This picture from Uruguay shows the Sauzal river over flowing its banks, The thirty-third bridge lost a span.
Heavy rainfall should continue the rest of the week as the sub tropical system is forecast to just spin offshore.
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